Acoustic Treatment vs Mic Selection: Where to Spend Your Budget
Here’s a situation that plays out in offices constantly. The conference room sounds bad on calls. The IT manager or the office manager decides the microphone must be the problem, because that’s the device that captures audio, so that’s the obvious culprit. They spend $800 on a better microphone. The calls still sound bad. Then […]
Lighting for Video Meetings: How to Get Studio-Quality Faces in Your Conference Room
There’s a reason news anchors and podcast hosts look so good on camera. It’s not the camera. It’s not the software. It’s the light. Specifically, it’s where the light is coming from and how it’s controlled. The average conference room does almost everything wrong by that standard. Overhead panels blasting straight down from the ceiling. […]
Room Audio & Lighting — Make Everyone Look & Sound Great
You can have a $1,500 camera on the wall and a premium Zoom subscription and still sound like you’re calling from a parking garage if the room wasn’t designed with audio in mind. You can have the sharpest display in the building and still look like a shadowy blob to the people on the other […]
How to Future-Proof Your Cabling for Upgrades and AV Expansions
You wire a conference room perfectly for today’s needs. HDMI to the display, Cat6 for network, a few power outlets. Two years later you need to add cameras, upgrade to 4K, add wireless presentation. Now you’re stuck running surface-mount raceways or tearing open walls because you didn’t plan ahead. Here’s the reality: AV technology evolves […]
Optimizing Zoom Room Audio for Hybrid Presentations
Here’s the nightmare scenario: your VP is presenting from the conference room to 50 remote attendees. She’s speaking clearly in the room, but people on Zoom are typing “can’t hear you” and “what did you say?” in the chat. Meanwhile, when remote participants ask questions, nobody in the room can understand them because the speakers […]